Brian Baker Managing Director Brian Baker is a Managing Director in Protiviti's Technology Consulting - Cloud Solution, focusing on the Healthcare industry. With more than 30 years in IT executive roles and as an infrastructure subject matter expert, Brian has a track record of delivering enterprise solutions across various sectors including, automotive, banking, distribution and logistics, manufacturing, healthcare and retail. A hands-on leader who has navigated positions from consulting engineer to CIO/CTO while managing significant CAPEX and OPEX budgets, Brian’s experience spans IT operations. His ability to effectively communicate with IT teams and executive management underscores his role as a problem solver and creative thinker known for introducing transformative solutions that elevate organizations to new heights. Brian's global expertise encompasses spearheading critical IT initiatives – including application development, automation projects and process optimizations – to enhance system delivery and user experiences.MAJOR PROJECTSGlobal Healthcare Holding Company: Lead migrations of 27 hospitals from on premise servers, storage and infrastructure to a modernized hybrid cloud environment using AWS, Azure and GCP as well as private cloud to support a forty-nine-billion-dollar organization that had 41,000 beds in network across the United States and United Kingdom. This included over 4,900 workloads, along with Meditech and Epic EMR/EHR Systems.Global Automotive Tire Manufacture: Lead and architected migration of over 5,000 applications/workloads from end-of-life data-centers globally to AWS cloud over a three-year initiative. Lead all phases of the project from assess, mobilize migrate and modernize.Nation Wide Retailer: Chief cloud architect on migration on a nationwide banking system from globally diverse data-centers to Google Cloud Platform. Stood up net new GCP landing zone, security and migration factory to successfully migrate over 1,000 workloads to Google Cloud Platform. Once migrations were completed to meet a data evacuation deadline, Brian lead the modernization of the workloads in GCP.National Banking: Designed and implemented an O365/M365 enterprise-wide deployment of over 20,000 mailboxes with Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive rollout as part of this. Also, as part of this did a migration of Mitel on-prem PBX to Teams voice. Sun-setted a multi-location Microsoft exchange and Microsoft active directory environment and did license management and consolidation.AREAS OF EXPERTISEMulti Cloud Subject Matter ExpertInfrastructure Subject Matter ExpertEnterprise SolutionsApplication DevelopmentAutomation ProjectsProcess OptimizationsINDUSTRY EXPERTISEHealthcareAutomotiveBankingDistribution and LogisticsManufacturingRetailEDUCATIONLipscomb UniversityCarnegie Mellon University – Heinz College of Information SystemsPROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATIONSITIL CertifiedAWS CertificationsVAST Data CertificationsCisco CertificationsVMWare CertificationsNutanix Certifications
